- Back to menuPrices
- Back to menuResearch
- Back to menuConsensus
- Back to menu
- Back to menu
- Back to menu
- Back to menuWebinars & Events
A ‘Best of’ 2021 Holiday Special: Haiti’s Transition Into Modern Finance
Reflection: a year-end replay of one of our favorite shows from 2021.
Presented by
ABOUT
This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp, Nexo.io and KuCoin.
This week and next we’re taking a year-end holiday from new episodes of “Money Reimagined.” Instead, we’re serving up a couple of our favorites from this year.
This week’s pick was Sheila Warren’s: the Haiti episode from May 21.
That’s when Sheila and co-host Michael Casey were joined by Jerry Tardieu, a Haitian author, entrepreneur and politician who represents Petion-ville in the Chamber of Deputies, and by Daniele Jean-Pierre, the co-founder and chief operating officer of Zimbali networks, which delivers smart-ledger solutions for the decentralized economy.
The pair walked us through Haiti’s history to show how a shameful, century-long legacy of a slavery-era debt continues to be a burden for the country. The debt, imposed by France to punish Haiti’s citizens for freeing themselves from their slave masters in a rebellion that won their independence in 1804, later became a U.S.-owned asset serviced by a bank that would become Citibank. In that sense, this long-standing problem is directly related to the issue of Wall Street’s power and dominance in the age of dollar hegemony, a power that is challenged, in theory, by cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
The discussion then turns to what solutions, technological or otherwise, might exist to create a system that empowers people rather than leaves them dependent on charity and foreign aid, with all the strings that come attached to that.
It’s the kind of episode that reminds us why the ideas behind crypto and blockchain matter.
This episode was produced, edited and announced by Michele Musso. Our Holiday theme song is “Father Christmas” by Cody Martin.
HOSTS
Michael J. Casey is Chairman of The Decentralized AI Society, former Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk and co-author of Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age. Previously, Casey was the CEO of Streambed Media, a company he cofounded to develop provenance data for digital content. He was also a senior advisor at MIT Media Labs's Digital Currency Initiative and a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to joining MIT, Casey spent 18 years at The Wall Street Journal, where his last position was as a senior columnist covering global economic affairs.
Casey has authored five books, including "The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order" and "The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything," both co-authored with Paul Vigna.
Upon joining CoinDesk full time, Casey resigned from a variety of paid advisory positions. He maintains unpaid posts as an advisor to not-for-profit organizations, including MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative and The Deep Trust Alliance. He is a shareholder and non-executive chairman of Streambed Media.
Casey owns bitcoin.

EPISODES
Crypto's Future of Policy, Politics, and the Fight for a Pro-Crypto Government
Messari’s Ryan Selkis from Bitcoin to crypto policy.
Jun 14, 2024
Embracing Nuance and Logic | The Diverse Community of Crypto
Post-Consensus 2024 reflections and examining the crypto industry and the implications of the U.S. Presidential elect...
Jun 5, 2024
‘Tokenization Is the Future of Real Assets.’
Max Boonen, CEO, and Co-Founder PV01, shares the advancements in technology and the war over regulation for tokenizat...
May 22, 2024
Future-Proofing Finance: MICA, Crypto Disclosure, and Global Regulatory Challenges
Bluprynt CEO and Georgetown Law Professor, Christopher J Brummer highlights the crucial need for financial disclosure...
May 18, 2024
COINDESK SERIES

The Mining Pod
Feb 10, 2025

CoinDesk Podcast Network
The top stories and best shows in the blockchain world, delivered daily from the team at CoinDesk.
Dec 20, 2023

Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
Tune in as CoinDesk runs down daily action in bitcoin markets and some of the most important recent industry development.
Dec 19, 2023

Unchained
Unchained, your no hype resource for all things crypto by former Forbes senior editor Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians.
Dec 18, 2023